02616cam a2200325 i 4500 408831869 TxAuBib 20200110120000.0 180925s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018043513 9780812994612 HRD 27.00 0812994612 HRD 27.00 TxAuBib rda Linehan, Marsha. Building a life worth living [BOOK] : a memoir / Marsha M. Linehan. First edition. New York : Random House, [2020] xvii, 357 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. Over the years, DBT had saved the lives of countless people fighting depression and suicidal thoughts, but Linehan had never revealed that her pioneering work was inspired by her own desperate struggles as a young woman. Only when she received this question did she finally decide to tell her story. In this remarkable and inspiring memoir, Linehan describes how, when she was eighteen years old, she began an abrupt downward spiral from popular teenager to suicidal young woman. After several miserable years in a psychiatric institute, Linehan made a vow that if she could get out of emotional hell, she would try to find a way to help others get out of hell too, and to build a life worth living. She went on to put herself through night school and college, living at the YWCA and often scraping together spare change to buy food. She went on to get her PhD in psychology, specializing in behavior therapy. In the 1980s, she achieved a breakthrough when she developed Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, a therapeutic approach that combines acceptance of the self and ways to change. Linehan included mindfulness as a key component in therapy treatment, along with original and specific life-skill techniques. She says, "You can't think yourself into new ways of acting; you can only act yourself into new ways of thinking." Linehan shows, in Building a Life Worth Living, how the principles of DBT really work—and how, using her life skills and techniques, people can build lives worth living. Provided by publisher. 20200110. Linehan, Marsha Mental health. Teenagers Suicidal behavior United States Biography. Psychotherapists United States Biography. Suicidal behavior Treatment. Dialectical behavior therapy.